1886.1 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 641 



tawny in the inner, only the tips of the latter being mottled with dusky ; 

 face whitish mottled with dusky and slightly tinged with tawny, all the 

 dusky mark being bordered with tawny ; a blackish semilune limits the au- 

 ricular region posteriorly ; ground color of the entire under surface, ex- 

 cept the legs, white with minute and delicate transversal dusky bars, each 

 of which are very narrowly edged with tawny ; near the middle line of 

 the body from the breast back wards the feathers are nearly immaculate 

 in the inner webs, forming a whitish median line ; the dusky mottlings 

 join at the shafts of the feathers, covering throat and sides so as to form 

 more or less conspicuous shaft streaks ; basal portion of all the feathers 

 strongly tinged with tawny, which is quite conspicuous on throat, fore- 

 neck, and sides ; feathers of tibte and tarsi pale tawny, each feather 

 with a subterminal dusky bar ; axillaries nearly uniform whitish with 

 a very pale tawny wash, under- wing coverts being colored more like 

 the legs ; remiges and great wing-coverts dusky with more or less dis- 

 tinct cross-bars of a dull cinnamon buff, which on the basal half of the 

 outer web of the second, third, and fourth primaries becomes nearly 

 whitish ; in the inner webs the brownish bands are more or less mottled 

 with dusky, while in the outer webs the dusky interspaces are similarly 

 mottled with the same color as the light bands ; tail-feathers colored 

 similar to the wing-feathers, but the light cross-bars are proportionally 

 narrower and less well defined, especially towards the tip, their number 

 on the middle pair being about ten. Bill and feet, in the dried state, 

 dark horn blue, the former with the extreme tip whitish. 



Lower part of tarsus naked for a distance of 6'"'". First primary 

 slightly shorter than sixth ; second intermediate between fourth and 

 fifth ; third and fourth equal and longest. Inner webs of first, second, 

 and third primaries abruptly sinuated ; outer webs of second, third, and 

 fourth gently sinuated. 



The dimensions are included in the following : 



Comparative table of measurements. 

 1. MEGASCOPS ELEGANS. 



Mnsenm and 

 No. 



Philada. Acad.. 

 Educ.M.,Tokio 



Collector and 

 No. 



Namiye.... 



ad. 

 ?ad. 



Locality. 



29° 47' N. lat. ; 126° 

 13' 30" E. long. 



Oroku, Okinawa 

 Shima. 



Date. 



Apr. 2,1850 1 172,78 

 Mar. 28, 1886 166 75 



Remarks. 



20... Type. 

 22 210 



Stretch ot 

 wing, 585. 



2. MEGASCOPS JAPONICUS. 



U.S. Nat. 96398. 

 Do. 96397. 

 Do. 96395. 

 Do. 96396. 

 Do. 96394. 



Ringer, 182 'cfad. 



Blakist., 2295. 1 cf ad. 

 Blakist., 2076. 1 cT ad. 

 Blakist., 2077 . ? ad. 

 Blakist., 1514. $ ad. 



Nagasaki, Kiusiu. 

 Hakodadi, Tesso.. 



do 



do 



do 



June 10, 1881 

 Sept. 16, 1877 

 Sept. 19, 1876 

 Sept. 19, 1876 

 Sept. 20, 1874 



Proc. N. M., 86- 



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Feb. 14, 1887. 



